Wayne State University
Wayne State University Library System
Digital Publishing UnitUnited States
Primary Contact:
Joshua Neds-Fox
Coordinator for Digital Publishing
313-577-4460
Program Overview
Wayne State’s Digital Publishing Unit works to make unique, important, or institutionally relevant scholarly content available to the world at large, in the context of the WSU Library System’s digital platforms.
Year publishing activities began: 2010
Organization: centralized library publishing unit/department
Total FTE in support of publishing activities: library staff (3); graduate students (0.5)
Funding sources (%): library operating budget (100)
Stage of publishing efforts (1–5):
Open access focus (1–5):
Advisory/editorial board:
Publishing Activities
Library-administered university press publications in 2014:
Library publications in 2014: faculty-driven journals (1); student-driven journals (1); journals produced under contract/MOU for external groups (10); ETDs (200); undergraduate capstone/honors theses (12)
Number of open access titles:
Number of paid titles:
Number of hybrid titles:
Media formats: text
Disciplinary specialties:
Top publications:
Percentage of journals that are peer reviewed: 100
Percentage of journals assessing article processing charges (APCs):
Internal partners: Wayne State University Press; campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students; undergraduate students
External partners:
Publishing platform(s): bepress (Digital Commons); Fedora
Digital preservation strategy: in-house; digital preservation services under discussion
Additional services: graphic design (print or web); typesetting; copy-editing; marketing; outreach; training; analytics; cataloging; metadata; author copyright advisory; other author advisory; digitization; hosting of supplemental content